B LACK GROUSE 



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expanded and trailing wings, in the presence of the hens. These 

 ' matrimonial markets ' are scenes of desperate combats between 

 rival cocks. In the end each male retires with the females he has 

 secured for his harem. The hen makes a slight nest under the 

 shelter of a bush, and lays six to ten eggs, yellowish white, with 

 orange-brown spots. The young feed principally on larvae of ants 

 and other insects. Grain, seeds, berries and buds, and shoots of 

 many kinds, are eaten by the old birds. 



Capercaillie. 



Tetrao urogallus. 



FIG. 94 CAPEECAILLIE. -L natural size. 



Feathers of the throat elongated, black ; head and neck dusky ; 

 eyes with a bare red skin above and a white spot below ; wings 



